5.3. SSL Utilities

The graphical utility ikmgui utility (IBM Key Management GUI) is provided for IBM AIX, Windows NT, and a number of other IBM and non-IBM platforms to manage SSL X.509v3 certificate databases (also known as keyring files or keyring databases). Its use is required to configure and use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The ikmgui utility replaces the mkkf and ikeyman utilities used with earlier versions of IBM SSL support. With the IBM SecureWay Directory (and associated clients), both client and server keyring files are managed with ikmgui.

The ikmgui utility, together with the SSL libraries, form the IBM SSL toolkit known as GSKit (Global Security Kit). GSKit provides the SSL protocol functions as well as a set of Certificate Management ...

Get LDAP Implementation Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.